Poetry

I remember seeing the movie Lone Survivor and getting emotional about a whole slew of issues. I also remember the night after I saw the movie, being glued to my phone, Googleing everything about Marcus Luttrell, Operation Red Wings, and all the other soldiers involved. I don’t know anyone who isn’t captivated by anything related to […]

I recently joined a mastermind and it’s awesome. Five of us meet on Skype once a week. We’re from around the world: South Africa, Israel, Australia, and USA. We’re all working in technology but on products that don’t compete with each other. My product is Spark Mints, which is tech because we will have an […]

Recently, I’ve been working with someone and I felt as though the relationship had lost a bit of the mutual respect we initially had when we first started working together. I’m younger and more inexperienced than this person, and I needed them more than they needed me. Over time, the relationship became imbalanced. In any […]

I just finished reading Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness and it had a profound impact on the way I think about interpersonal relationships and company culture, which I used to think was just some sort of superficial business school buzzword that that people merely paid lip service to. Zappos.com is an awesome company, and there are […]

I’ve been on Facebook since 2004, the fall of my freshman year in college. That’s almost 10 years of Facebook. Wow. Thinking about that fact makes me feel a bit ambivalent to say the least. My Facebook usage has evolved over time. At first, it was an addictive tool to “Facebook stalk” people you just […]

In the beginning everything is full of potential, the future looks so bright, and the plan seems so solid. There’s no way things are going to go wrong. Sure, maybe there will be a couple speed bumps, but those will be completely manageable. Why would you ever want to disrupt this blissful vision by getting […]

Someone told me that Mother Teresa once said that she’s never anti-war but always pro-peace. I just googled this quote, found it, and then also found that this quote may be misattributed to Mother Teresa. In any event, the lesson is clear: conscious focus determines the outcome. Just saying or thinking “anti-war” brings to consciousness the […]

Notice the color of the other person’s eyes. That’s the single best piece of advice I’ve ever read and put into practice on making eye contact. There’s so much information out there on making eye contact because we all know how important it is when it comes to relationships, jobs, success, etc. Here and here […]

There’s something that I should have been doing that I haven’t been doing for a while. It’s something that I wanted to do but through a combination of indifference, laziness, and dissatisfaction I stopped doing it a while ago, and although in the back of my mind I felt guilty about it, the guilt was […]

I’m the type of person to always carry water with me. You just never know. So I have either a Nalgene or a Klean Kanteen on hand most of the time. I’m also that guy chugging water before going through airport security so I can keep my bottle. Recently, when I boarded a flight leaving San Francisco I […]